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DISCOVERIES AT EPHESUS.
Ancient
writers
now un-
derstood.
The
marble.
built on the same foundations about the beginning of the
fourth century B.C. have not been handed down to us.
This temple was destroyed the day Alexander the Great
was born. The third and last temple on the same foun-
dations Was built by Dinocrates, a Macedonian architect,
and to this building belong most of the sculpture and
fragments of architecture from the temples now in the
British Museum.
On so vast a building as the Temple of Diana archi-
tects must have been constantly employed ; but the names
which I have given are the only ones handed down to
us.
We find then that Philo described the foundations
which had served for the last three temples; that
Vitruvius described the manner in which the last temple
but two was constructed, and his description answered as
well for the last two, all three buildings bein^ similar in
plan ; that Pliny, in saying that the Temple of Diana
took 220 years in building, was speaking of all these last
three temples as one building, as they were twice re-
built on the same plan and site.
The marble with which the Temple was built certainly
did not come from the quarries of either Prion or Coressus.
There is marble in the mountain which bounds the plain
on the east side ; but I could find no quarry there which
could have supplied the marble. I believe it may have
come from Cosbounar, where there is a very large quarry
of fine white marble ; and if we read passuuiu {or pedum
in the description of Vitruvius relating to the distance of
the quarry from the Temple, it will make this conjecture
DISCOVERIES AT EPHESUS.
Ancient
writers
now un-
derstood.
The
marble.
built on the same foundations about the beginning of the
fourth century B.C. have not been handed down to us.
This temple was destroyed the day Alexander the Great
was born. The third and last temple on the same foun-
dations Was built by Dinocrates, a Macedonian architect,
and to this building belong most of the sculpture and
fragments of architecture from the temples now in the
British Museum.
On so vast a building as the Temple of Diana archi-
tects must have been constantly employed ; but the names
which I have given are the only ones handed down to
us.
We find then that Philo described the foundations
which had served for the last three temples; that
Vitruvius described the manner in which the last temple
but two was constructed, and his description answered as
well for the last two, all three buildings bein^ similar in
plan ; that Pliny, in saying that the Temple of Diana
took 220 years in building, was speaking of all these last
three temples as one building, as they were twice re-
built on the same plan and site.
The marble with which the Temple was built certainly
did not come from the quarries of either Prion or Coressus.
There is marble in the mountain which bounds the plain
on the east side ; but I could find no quarry there which
could have supplied the marble. I believe it may have
come from Cosbounar, where there is a very large quarry
of fine white marble ; and if we read passuuiu {or pedum
in the description of Vitruvius relating to the distance of
the quarry from the Temple, it will make this conjecture